Around 1,000 Hungarians protested against Prime Minister Viktor Orban yesterday at a pro-EU (European Union) rally in Budapest organized by leftist opposition parties, demanding that the government respect democratic rights and other EU values, the Reuters website reports today (September 17, 2018).
The European Parliament voted on September 12 to sanction Hungary for flouting EU rules on democracy, civil rights, and corruption in an unprecedented step that left Orban isolated from some powerful allies in the European Parliament.
Hungary said it would seek legal ways to challenge the ruling.
Opponents of Orban say he has broken EU rules on several occasions. Orban has also been one of the strongest opponents of the EU's migration policies, as he has forbidden refugees from entering Hungary.
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